Medizone International, Inc. (Pink Sheets: MZEI) is front and center in addressing the growing problems recognized in sterile hospital environments.  This is the company that may actually save your life or that of a loved one.  This company has the potential to play a serious role in what is becoming recognized by hospitals everywhere as a serious threat.

Medizone International is ready to move in this field at precisely the right time.  The Company has begun its second series of laboratory trials of AsepticSure™ hospital sterilization technology.  The first round of trials using this technology demonstrated bactericidal effects against C-difficile, E-coli, Pseudomonas aeruginous, MRSA and VRE  the main causative agents of hospital derived nosocomial infections.

Medizone with AsepticSure™ is preparing to enter the decontamination of hospital business and anticipates the completion of the new studies by early July.  Field trials then be initiated in preparation for marketing later this calendar year.   The demand is huge as hospitals in the United States are forced by recent legistlation in many states to squarely face this growing issue.  Nosocomial infections are coming out of hospitals’ dark closet and they are literally having to air their DIRTY LINEN.  Every week a new study indicates yet another source of patient contamination which cripples and kills yet another patient.

Canada is ahead of the United States in tracking nosocomial infections in hospitals; the highest rates have been noted in Quebec and Ontario, according to the Canadian Nosocomial Infection Surveillance Program study.  Currently, the group states an estimated 220,000 Canadians suffer from hospital-acquired infections each year and 8,000 die from them. Their findings are astoundingly frightening: “The biggest problem with this disease,” Mr. Charney said, “is that people aren’t washing their hands and hospitals haven’t invested enough resources in monitoring nursing staff and doctors to make sure they are washing their hands.”

Phil Hassen, chief executive officer of the Canadian Patient Safety Institute, has said only 40 per cent of health-care workers properly wash their hands. Recent studies, and I mean in the LAST FEW MONTHS indicate pens, physician’s ties, linen and the more obvious sources of transmission medical equipment remains unsterile and is the source of tranmission on many, many cases.

Pernicious and sneaky, MRSA can hide inside a nostril, sit on a hand or lurk in a piece of soiled clothing. It may show up as a blotch of reddened skin, or as a painful, swollen pimple. The damage it inflicts can be minor and treated with a topical antibiotic, or it can be merciless, causing blood poisoning, deep wound infections, decayed lungs and pneumonia. Those with open wounds are vulnerable, as they provide a quick port of entry. The superbug has made strong inroads in Canadian hospitals, where a tenfold increase in the rate of those colonized and infected with it has been observed over the past decade. Some of the highest rates have been noted in Quebec and Ontario, according to the Canadian Nosocomial Infection Surveillance Program study, which looked at MRSA in 38 hospitals in nine provinces.

In Ontario, 13,458 patients were found to be colonized or infected with MRSA last year – the highest number the province has ever recorded, according to figures from Ontario’s Quality Management Program – Laboratory Services.

The Public Health Agency of Canada has developed a plan to reduce hospital-acquired infections. The superbug to be eradicated has not yet been selected, though MRSA is said to be of particular interest. Most hospitals tests patients admitted to Bridgepoint are tested for MRSA, largely because many come from acute-care hospitals, where the superbug is more of an issue.  Patients colonized or infected with MRSA are placed on contact isolation, which means everyone who comes into contact with them must wear gowns, gloves and masks and vigorously wash their hands. As well, those who test positive undergo a decolonization regime of antiseptic baths and nasal ointment.

Do not miss this incredible story and when you or a loved one next enters a hospital — at a minimum you will be armed with the crucial understanding of the real risk you assume.  At a maximum this may save your life!